in which I write about stuff
concept via Ralph:
and…
“A vision that attributes particular properties to ultimate reality ‘is as much about what it excludes as about what it is,’ Smith explained.” – Rational Mysticism, John Horgan
(interesting book, btw, for someone as irreligious, and yet drawn to mysticism, as I can be.)
today I talked to my ex, which was a good thing; sounds like he’s going through an interesting patch. (since when has he not been?) the hour-long chat was mostly massive catch-up, since we haven’t talked in something like two years. (the spring before I moved to Oly?)
I feel as though I want to write something more about it, but I don’t know what yet. I’m happy to hear from him, anyway. hopefully, with the intarweb, it won’t be so infrequently that we communicate.
oh, and a note about googling for people, just FYI: in your initial searching, don’t include place names. the simpler the search, the more likely you’ll get something worthwhile. ‘kay, hon? 😉
last weekend, I wrote about my problems with my vegetable garden; at the time, it looked very grim. but a couple of days ago I was out fussing over tulips (not that they need much fussing) and went to look at the veggie bed….
lo and behold, some of the seeds that I planted with the starts had actually sprouted. if the chart that I drew up when I planted everything is correct, then I have lettuce, radishes, spinach, arugula, and peas coming up. yay!
plus the 2nd batch of starts is doing quite well; I imagine they’ll go out in the garden in another week or two.
(on the other hand, this weekend we’re supposed to be getting more unseasonably warm weather…it feels more like June than April, and I’m a little worried at the lack of rain.)
I really want to add back in my blogroll, because I like showing linky love. on the other hand, I’ve gotten attached to this design, which doesn’t really have room for it. perhaps an addition to the about section? that, or a “currently reading” sort of feature….
on a totally unrelated note, today brought the collision of personal history, good packrat impulses, and the internet, with happy results for everyone.
I’ve had this idea in my head for a while now to have a slightly different style for each section of my site — not the layout, but the colors: driven by the different little images on the home page. I’m about halfway through…need to work out what colors go with the album and emergency weblog images…that, and find that darn owl. (I think it may still be on the camera.)
also, would love to hear if anybody thinks it works/doesn’t work.
I finally figured out the problem with the headers (which was why I had those brightly colored borders around everything); if you’re using Dan Cederholm’s simple tabs for navigation, and you want something to sit immediately below it, replace this in #minitabs a:link, #minitabs a:visited:
margin: 0 10px 4px 10px;
with
margin: 0 10px; border-bottom: 4px solid transparent;
a friendly public service announcement from your neighborhood CSS geek.
now to spice it up a little with images and more color….
yesterday was game day; there was slaying of monsters and capturing of bandits. also the first headache in a week (a milestone!) but the meds took hold reasonably quickly. I had lots of fun, although I also faded out a little more swiftly than usual. sometimes it really sucks being chronically sleep-deprived.
today has been a slow day; something about switching to DST…I can’t think of a time in the last few years when that switchover day hasn’t been a bit of a lost day. I didn’t really feel like the day had even started until somewhere around noon….
on the other hand, we did get some gardening stuff today this afternoon; finally planted the hand-me-down honeysuckle that’s been living in a plastic pot on our patio for the last year and a half.
as for gardening in general, it’s been an interesting experience this spring. I planted tulips: a 100-count bag that I got from Fred Meyer for $10 — they’ve come up in glorious profusion, as did some of the leftover tulips from last year, and a handful of daffodils. the other hand-me-downs from last fall — daisies and oriental lilies — along with the perennials from last year, are likewise taking off wonderfully well.
vegetables, and other things from seed, are not doing so well, mostly because I got overambitious and misjudged the weather. I spent all last Saturday digging up a plot, with C. & J.’s help, and planted all the starts, along with seeds, on Sunday morning. Only then it was nearly 80 during the day for two days, and dropped down near freezing every night last week. so now it looks terrible…the only things showing even the remotest sign of life are three little broccoli plants.
luckily, I only planted/started about half of the seeds, so I have plently left to start over, except for the zucchini.
I suppose it’s all a learning (and/or relearning) process.
I don’t know what I missed, but I didn’t have moderation turned on after all (as some more astute readers may have already noticed); after getting three interestingly poetic, but definitely spam, comments, I’ve turned it on for real and even managed to test it.
alas, this may mean that your comment may not appear for as much as a day or two after you make it. them’s the breaks, I guess.